Talk:Black Sand
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Obtaining black sand is cheapest with a tin spade, a magnet, and a little exploring. (The magnet picks up black sand in one stroke without wear.) A lvl 3 (sapphire) trade portal allows it to be purchased directly, but an alternate and possibly cheaper route is to have an electric press, electric sluice, and an electric furnace, all with power:
- Buy/mine common stone (and limestone, one block per 5 black sand desired).
- Press the stone to gravel (and limestone to crushed limestone).
- Press enough gravel to make one block of sand for each block of black sand desired.
- Sluice gravel until there's three iron ores for every block of black sand desired.
- Furnace the iron ore and crushed limestone to make pig iron.
- Press the sand and pig iron to make black sand.
